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Peter Zevenaar Peter Zevenaar (born 1968, the Netherlands). Back in 1982 a friend's Commodore 64 was my first encounter with computers. My friend programmed in Basic and we spent hours trying to digitally duplicate the A-team's intro in which the A-team text became shootingly visible on the screen while Mr. T's black van drove around it :-). In 1985 I went into music and bought an Ensoniq EPS sampler which taught me about (the limitations of) computers. Having only 1Mb for all of your samples can be a real pain. In 1994 I started making little macros in WordPerfect to make life a bit easier at my daily job and in 1997 I became an info analyst which was when I met Paradox. A close friend of mine wrote a clever application for me in Paradox 7. Seeing him program I knew: that's what I want to do!!! It took till January 2000 to become reality: I got the chance to make a multi-user application for my department. A newbie developer wannabie is what I became. Knowing about Paradox as a desktop user and not being hampered by any programming knowledge whatsoever, I got lessons from my friend, started to read the help files and tried to learn by trial and error.

One day I called the Dutch Corel office for a problem related to date conversions from Paradox to WordPerfect. Corel couldn't provide the answer but directed me to the Paradox newsgroups. "Hmm...why would they possibly invest time in my specific problem?", I sceptically thought. Luckily I took the chance anyway which turned out to be a true revelation. I suddenly understood what I read about internet becoming the world's global consciousness. And yes, at first I did crosspost and send attachments but I learned :-). Thanks to the help of the newsgroup's gurus and other contributors I managed to make my application work in a reasonably short amount of time, with good success. Special thanks to Liz Woodhouse and Denn Santoro for their amazing support and patience.

In April 2000 I downloaded Vladimir Menkin's excellent, free, and time saving developer's tool ProView. After working with it for a while I sent Vladimir some wishes and after that I gradually became ProView's beta-tester, which is lots of fun to do. The best thing for me about Paradox is being able to discover new things every single day. Paradox makes sure you only have to say no to your customer when you want to. It does it all! Regarding analyses I like Mark Twain's quote: "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics." In this respect Paradox helps me in lots of ways to get closer to the truth or, if you like, further from statistics :-).



Check out these articles written by Peter :
ActiveX controls - A step by step tutorial
Paradox Case Study: Peter Zevenaar's Music Archive v1.2
Using the Alfafish MP3 tag reader/writer ActiveX control in Paradox


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